Posted on 04/01/2011 10:51:52 PM PDT by neverbluffer
Ok...this question has been bugging me for a long time.
I am adopted. Born in 1965 in NJ. My adoption records are permanently sealed. Both adoptive parents are US Citizens.
I dont know the status of my birth parents, whether or not they were born here since I was adopted at birth.
Like me, millions of people are adopted and do not know and may never know who their real birth parents are. I assume we will face this someday when an adopted child runs for President.
Can I run for President if I wanted to? I was raised at birth by 2 American Citizens as mother and father, but I dont know about my birth parents?
What about all those kids born today by single mothers who never list a father on the birth certificate? Can they run for President?
I think its a good question that will need to be dealt with at some point...
Please comment.
If Obama has taught us anything, it is that anyone can be President!
Both Gerald Ford and Ronald Regan were adopted.
What is wrong with working for a living.
Most people would get tired of the amount of golf you get to play.
Ronald Reagan was not adopted.
It is not a question of being adopted, it is a question of “vcan you prove who your birth parents were”
That’s right.
Your legal parents are your only parents. I would say that even if they adopted you from another country, you are natural born. But I think this should be part of an amendment to the Constitution, along with a full definition of “natural born citizen.
It should be clearly stated that to be a natural born citizen, you must be born to or adopted to (before the age of 10 or some other reasonable age) citizens of the USA, and born on American soil or to parents serving in the diplomatic corps or the military.
If Obama has taught us anything, it is that anyone can be President!
And they scraped the very bottom of the sewer to come up with the evil bastard.
This was not an issue before Obama.
There, fixed it.
Nothing to be bothered about. You were born in the USA. That's enough. Don't believe that nonsense about needing two citizen parents to be eligible for president. Some birther made that up in Nov. of 2008 when the birth certificate issue failed to gain traction. No one prior to the Fall of 2008 believed two citizen parents were necessary, and no judge or constitutional scholar believes it today.
If you want proof, we've had several presidential and vice presidential candidates in the past whose parents weren't citizens when they were born. No one ever brought up the issue back then. There's a reason.
You’re adopted parents names are the only thing that changes on the Birth Certificate. The location, date, time etc remain the same. It should only be an issue if you were foreign born.
Nobody has to prove who his birth parents were in order to be President.
Ford was only half-adopted (by his step-father) and Reagan wasn’t adopted at all. Reagan adopted Michael Reagan, so that’s probably what you’re thinking of.
Bill Clinton was never adopted by Roger Clinton, Sr.. He did have a judge approve the name change when he was in high school.
I was adopted at 8 weeks.
I have my birth certificate with my name given at birth, hospital in a location-state in the Northeast, U.S. This does not have the names of my parents on the BC, but has the doctor's signature.
I also have my adoption certificate with change of name given by my adoptive parents who were U.S. citizens.
I never cared to search for my natural born parents. My real parents I considered my adoptive parents.
You do not need the name of your birth parents. You were born on American soil, you were adopted by citizens of this country and resided with them in this country.
Who cares what my birth-parents name is..never an issue.
Gerald Ford, the 38th US President, was adopted.
Overly literal interpretations of these things is never good. I would rather see an infant born in China, and adopted in infancy by an American couple grow up to be president, than an American born child who spent his whole life abroad. The former is far more representative of what our Founders wanted. They wanted loyalty to the United States of America, not a favorable latitude of birth.
The whole “native born is not enough” line will come back to bite the conservative movement if a strong candidate arises who is born on U.S. soil but happens to have immigrant parentage.
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